Gary Weimberg
Known For: Editing
Biography
Gary Weimberg has spent the last two decades making award-winning documentaries as a producer, director, editor, writer, and camera person. 9 primetime documentary specials. Hundreds of web videos. Big budget programs and one-person-intimate efforts. He has been nominated for 6 Emmy awards and won two national Emmy Awards (Earth and the American Dream (1992); Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994)) Two documentaries that he edited were nominated for Academy Awards (Memorial 1989; and _ Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)_). He was nominated as Outstanding Documentary Director by the Director's Guild of America for his controversial political documentary, The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez-Gomez (1999), PBS 1999; a program that contributed directly to the Presidential Pardon and release of 12 political prisoners who had already served 19 years in prison. As part of Luna Productions, he has produced a series of documentaries for non-profit organizations that have helped to raise over $27.4 million for worthy causes and co-produced/directed/edited two feature documentaries: Three Women And A Chateau (a 100 year history of a 100 room mansion) and Soldiers Of Conscience (a look at the morality of killing in times of war, through the experiences of US soldiers in war in Iraq).
Filmography
2023
- How to Live 100 Years (or more) ... (Director)
2016
- My Love Affair with the Brain ... (Director)
2015
- Ghost Town to Havana ... (Co-Producer)
2014
- The Heiress and Her Chateau: Carolands of California ... (Editor)
2013
- A Fierce Green Fire ... (Editor)
2011
- Something Ventured ... (Editor)
2007
- Soldiers Of Conscience ... (Director)
2003
- Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin ... (Editor)
2001
- A Bridge of Books ... (Editor)
1999
- The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez ... (Director)
1997
- The Story of Mothers & Daughters ... (Director)
1994
- Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob ... (Writer)
1993
- And the Band Played On ... (Additional Editing)
- Terminal USA ... (Editor)
1992
- Earth and the American Dream ... (Editor)
1991
- Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers ... (Editor)
- Maria's Story ... (Associate Producer)
1990
- The Godfather Part III ... (Sound Effects Editor)
1983
- The Black Stallion Returns ... (Sound Editor)
1981
- Street Music ... (Assistant Editor)